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Halo 5: Guardians will be running on an all new engine, built form the ground up to take advantage of the Xbox One. While it was made in a time before the loss of the Kinect (Microsoft originally packed in a Kinect with every Xbox One), it probably won’t be hamstrung in any way now that Kinect integration is no longer mandatory. In fact, it might even perform better. To put it simply, Halo 5 looks gorgeous. While the Master Chief Collection gave us a glimpse on how pretty a high resolution version of Halo could look like, the graphical difference between the Spartan models in the Halo 5 beta and Halo 4 (on the Master Chief Collection as it’s a bit unfair to compare it to Halo 4 on the Xbox 360) are worlds apart. The texture work alone is on a whole new level when compared to the work done on the reworked Halo 4. Even better than that, the frame rate stays constant the whole time, with only a stuttering here and there in the initial stages as the players are loaded into the map.